Recent answers to How to make address and awesome bar not auto-expand?https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/9483602013-07-05T00:41:54-07:00That's exactly what I did.
I created a chrome folder here: (home)/Library/Application Support/Fire2013-07-05T00:41:54-07:00lapsangleafhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/948360#answer-453102<p>That's exactly what I did.
I created a chrome folder here: (home)/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/(....default)/chrome
Within which I created a userChrome.css file that reads:
</p><p>@namespace url("<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul</a>"); /* only needed once */
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<ol><li>urlbar-container { max-width:400px!important; }
</li><li>search-container { max-width:200px!important; }
</li></ol>
<p>It hasn't worked.
</p>These directions are found within the articles cor-el linked to. Here they are simply:
Go to help-&g2013-07-04T18:28:31-07:00steavio99https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/948360#answer-453021<p>These directions are found within the articles cor-el linked to. Here they are simply:
</p><p>Go to help-&amp;gt;troubleshooting. Click the button 'show folder', next to 'profile folder'.
</p><p>Create a new folder named 'chrome'.
</p><p>Open up TextEdit (for non-mac OS: use notepad or your favorite text editor). Copy in the lines at the end of cor-el's message (from "@namespace" onward).
</p><p>Save the file in the folder you just created (chrome) and name it 'userChrome.css'. I don't use mac, but there's probably some option of what format to save it in. Choose 'plain text' or 'all formats' or something like that.
</p><p>Restart Firefox. Your panels should now be a fixed width. You can experiment with changing the values 400 and 200 to make the panels longer or shorter to your needs.
</p>Well, either this doesn't work for me (using ff 22 on OS X 10.8.4) or I'm getting something wrong. 2013-07-04T13:46:33-07:00lapsangleafhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/948360#answer-452934<p>Well, either this doesn't work for me (using ff 22 on OS X 10.8.4) or I'm getting something wrong. Could you, perhaps, simplify this workaround even more? Thanks.
</p>Thank you! It took me a while to get around to doing this, hence the late response, but it works lik2013-02-03T14:53:17-08:00steavio99https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/948360#answer-404494<p>Thank you! It took me a while to get around to doing this, hence the late response, but it works like a charm!
</p><p>Cheers,
Steavio99
</p>Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/us2013-01-25T22:36:36-08:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/948360#answer-401903<p>Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line.
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<ul><li><a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/userChrome.css" rel="nofollow">http://kb.mozillazine.org/userChrome.css</a>
</li></ul>
<p>The customization files userChrome.css (interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the user profile folder.
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<ul><li><a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration" rel="nofollow">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration</a>
</li></ul>
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<pre>@namespace url("<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul</a>"); /* only needed once */
#urlbar-container { max-width:400px!important; }
#search-container { max-width:200px!important; }
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